SceneryDesign.org Today I was testing ModelConverterX with the default Airbus A321 of FSX. When I wanted to export the object to a different format I noticed that the default name suggested by ModelConverterX was a bit weird. This was because the name stored in the MDL file was not really correct, I hope they are not […]
DevDays video
Last May I gave a presentation about ESP and FSX at the DevDays in Amsterdam. Until now I never found out what they did with the video recording of that session, but today I found it back on the MSDN website. It is in Dutch, so unfortunately not everybody will be able to understand what […]
FSX SDK on Linux
Your first question might be why I would like to do this? There are multiple reason for that, but the main reason is that I was not so pleased with processing my big aerial imagery on Vista. It just doesn’t seem to work nicely when you are processing files of a few GB in size. […]
NLR at YouTube
At bit off topic maybe, but recently I found out that my company (the Dutch Aerospace Laboratory – NLR), put some nice promotion videos on YouTube. So if you might want to see a bit of the things I am doing for work have a look. Especially this video gives a nice overview of some […]
Export of animations
Although the functionality to automatically generate lower polygon models for the LOD is not finished yet, I still have to add functionality to preserve materials and mappings better, I have decided to move over to another big thing on my ModelConverterX todo list. The main reason for this is that I need that other functionality […]
Level of Detail Creator
Sometimes a small preview video says more than a long piece of text. So therefore I have a preview video of the ModelConverterX LOD Creator functionality for you. Enjoy!
ModelConverterX magic
The last few days I have been working hard on improving the ModelConverterX tool again. Some other members of the Netherlands 2000 Scenery Design team were busy trying to convert some of the old API macros in the project to new FSX MDL files, so they provided me with a fresh stream of bugs. While […]
Some Wiki updates
I have added some additional information to the FSDeveloper Wiki. Update of the information on the FSX MDL format. This is mainly what I figured out while adding support for animations to ModelConverterX. Added an article to explain the different DXT compressions that can be used for textures. I would be happy to receive any […]
Textures
Some time ago I came across the website CG Textures which has a huge collection of images that can be very useful when looking for a specific texture. I think this might be a useful website for scenery designers.
Replacing the object market
Before we had a forum called Object market at the FSDeveloper site where people could share their work with other developers. This forum has now closed and all objects from it have been added to the downloads section. Of course users are still free (or I would even say encouraged) to contribute their work to […]